Golden-winged Sparrow

SCI Name:  Arremon schlegeli
Protonym:  Arremon schlegeli Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.488 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Arremon
Taxonomy Code:  gowspa1
Type Locality:  or Caracas, Venezuela, fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11 p. 428.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARREMON
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Pectoral Sparrow A. taciturnus) Gr. αρρημων arrhēmōn, αρρημονος arrhēmonos  silent, without speech  < negative prefix α- a- ; ῥημων rhēmōn, ῥημονος rhēmonos  speaker  < ερω erō  I will speak  < λεγω legō  to speak; “Oiseau silentieux  ... il ne va pas en compagnie, on le trouve toujours seul dans le fond des grands bois fort éloignés des endroits habités, & on ne l'a jamais entendu ramager ni même jeter aucun cri" (de Buffon 1770-1783); "67. ARREMON, Arremon.  Tanagra, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec médiocre un peu fort, conico-convexe, à bords courbés en dedans, échancré et fléchi à la pointe.— Première remige plus courte que la septième.   Esp. Oiseau silencieux, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Arremon Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 32. Type, by monotypy, "L'Oiseau Silencieux" of Buffon = Tanagra taciturna Hermann." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 182).
Var. Aremon, Arrhemon, Aneman, Arremo.
Synon. Buarremon, Lysurus.

schlegeli
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Actitis hypoleucos, Arremon, syn. Bucorvus leadbeateri, Eudyptes, subsp. Henicophaps albifrons, subsp. Mandingoa nitidula, subsp. Penthoceryx sonneratii, Philepitta, syn. Pitta sordida cucullata, syn. Platysmurus leucopterus) (see schlegelii).

SUBSPECIES

Golden-winged Sparrow (fratruelis)
SCI Name: Arremon schlegeli fratruelis
fratruelis
Late L. fratruelis  brother's son, nephew  < L. frater  brother.
• "ARREMON SCHLEGELI FRATRUELIS, new subspecies   Characters.—Similar to Arremon schlegeli schlegeli Bonaparte but with larger bill; averaging slightly larger in other dimensions.  ...  Range.—The Serranía de Macuire, Guajira, Colombia, above 1,500 feet elevation.  ...  The Macuire race fratruelis is found only in the higher forests of the mountain range in question and probably consists of only a small population." (Wetmore 1946) (subsp. Arremon schlegeli).

Golden-winged Sparrow (canidorsum)
SCI Name: Arremon schlegeli canidorsum
canidorsum
L. canus  grey; dorsum  back.

Golden-winged Sparrow (schlegeli)
SCI Name: Arremon schlegeli schlegeli
schlegeli
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Actitis hypoleucos, Arremon, syn. Bucorvus leadbeateri, Eudyptes, subsp. Henicophaps albifrons, subsp. Mandingoa nitidula, subsp. Penthoceryx sonneratii, Philepitta, syn. Pitta sordida cucullata, syn. Platysmurus leucopterus) (see schlegelii).